The Network Information Service (NIS), previously
called “Yellow Pages,” is a distributed database
system that allows you to maintain commonly used configuration information
on a master server and propagate the information to all the hosts
in your network. This chapter explains how to configure and administer
the servers and clients in an NIS domain. It contains the following
sections:
NOTE: NIS is not supported across extended LANs (LANs separated
by routers or bridges). NIS is also not supported across WAN links,
like X.25 and SLIP.
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